If she refuses to support Romney, she shoots right to the top and IS the new Reagan and maybe then some.
If she is effectively forced to endorse Romney, I will be quite disappointed but I will forgive her as I would forgive few others.
I used to be involved nationally in GOP youth groups (YRs, CRs, YAF) and with Reagan's campaign against Ford. I have a very good idea of just how hard she will be pushed to endorse Romney. Ford threatened a very major GOP contributor that, if there were any evidence of the contributor supporting Reagan against Ford, the contributor would be prosecuted fairly or not by the IRS and destroyed. These guys play hardball. Since only Sarah is of any real value to Romney and since he must insist on her moral submission (what Ayn Rand called "the sanction of the victim") to damage Sarah with her base, only Sarah will be targeted like that.
I don't dispute a word that you post but we MUST recognize that the pressures on Sarah will not be reported even here much less in the LSM. She resigned the governorship when relentlessly harassed by her corrupt enemies in both Alaska parties. She is a very shrewd and smart lady but she is still quite young and needs time to emerge on her own terms and the GOP-E whores will do whatever they can to destroy her and they will have the able assistance of Axelhole, the Demonrats and the LSM.
We need to accept the possibility that Sarah will be derailed from a strictly moral course by pressures that you and I will be fortunate never to suffer. She has a brain but she also is subject to human weakness as are we all. May God bless her and protect her, send His angels to her defense and include her, if He chooses, in His plan for our nation which just must be better than yours or mine or anyone else's.
May God bless you and yours!
Amen, Black Elk. Thank you for sharing your insight -- I fully expect Palin to officially endorse Romney specifically, it will disappoint me, and I will still vote the way I think is right -- not the way Levin, or Rush, or even Palin counsel.
And I would certainly forgive all three. Your enlightening post would make it that much easier.
God bless you too!